I've been playing with low level stuff on my computer in #Rust, and it is amazing how dumb so much of it is. Every time you turn on your computer, it's like… If you walked out into your driveway and there was a 1921 Model T, and to drive anywhere, it would transform itself into a 1931 Model A Ford, then a 1964 Ford Mustang, and then transform itself into a 1986 Ford Escort, and finally into a 2021 Ford Escape Hybrid. And the reason why? Well… what if someone wants to listen to AM radio? We have to maintain backwards compatibility to the Model T in case anyone wants to listen to AM radio. But the modern car can have an AM radio without having to transform itself from a Model T!? Yeah, it could, and in fact it does do that. There's no trace of the original AM radio in the Escape, but, I d'know, that's just the way it's done.

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